[45973] in Cypherpunks
Some IETF drafts possibly of interest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Wed Dec 27 13:44:44 1995
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 12:01:29 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP to ds.internic.net in the
directory internet-drafts. Other places, too -- don't ask me, tho; for
questions, please mail to Internet-Drafts@cnri.reston.va.us.
The first two seem interesting even if SKIP has no future in IPng.
The last is useful because I keep pushing GSSAPI as a standard crypto
API. :)
Title : Encoding of an Unsigned Diffie-Hellman Public Value
Author(s) : A. Aziz, T. Markson, H. Prafullchandra
Filename : draft-ietf-ipsec-skip-udh-00.txt
Pages : 6
Date : 12/22/1995
It is useful to be able to communicate public keys in the absence of a
certificate hierarchy and a signature infrastructure. This document
describes a method by which certificates which communicate Diffie-Hellman
public values and parameters may be encoded and securely named.
Title : Certificate Discovery Protocol
Author(s) : A. Aziz, T. Markson, H. Prafullchandra
Filename : draft-ietf-ipsec-cdp-00.txt
Pages : 13
Date : 12/22/1995
Use of Public key cryptography is becoming widespread on the Internet in
such applications as electronic mail and IP Security (IPSEC). Currently,
however, a common public key certificate infrastructure does not exist
which is interoperable with other systems and ubiquitous. In light of
this, we describe a protocol which may be used to exchange or retrieve
certificates (essentially signed public keys) with or from another entity.
The protocol may be used to request certificates from a directory/name
server or from the entity who owns the certificate.
Title : The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM)
Author(s) : C. Adams
Filename : draft-ietf-cat-spkmgss-05.txt
Pages : 42
Date : 12/22/1995
This specification defines protocols, procedures, and conventions to be
employed by peers implementing the Generic Security Service Application
Program Interface (as specified in RFCs 1508 and 1509) when using the
Simple Public-Key Mechanism.
